A British take on the Tex-Mex classic, with shredded savory beef wrapped inside a giant Yorkshire pudding.

British Burrito

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

I don’t usually fall for pictures or food posted to places like FaceBook or Pinterest, but every once in awhile, I see something that makes me stop dead in my tracks and say “Wow! I want that. I want that NOW!”

And a friend of mine happened to share a photo of a British Burrito, which is apparently an item across the pond in a British gastropub. There wasn’t much to go with it but a description: beef wrapped in a giant Yorkshire pudding with gravy on the side. I read the article accompanying, and there was little more except saying they rolled out the Yorkshire pudding before filling it.

So I was on my own.

And I had just happened to have aCAB chuck roast defrosted,which I had planned to cook in the slow cooker as a Cubano style beef roast with Mojo Criollo. Except I was out of naranja agria (sour orange juice) and as luck would have it, before I could go shop for that missing item, the photo of the British burrito popped up.

So what I have done is switch gears until I cook another beef roast, so hang tight for that until I get the Cuban Roast made. And I set out cooking a savory beef roast in the slow cooker, along with a sauce reduction, giant Yorkshire puddings and a bit of Cabot’s Horseradish cheddar cheese. I like the idea of horseradish with beef. And since I can’t imagine *any* burrito without cheese, that cheese won the day.

Disclaimer: Cabot Cheese generously provided the cheese in this recipe as part of a “Brunch Week“ promotion, but all opinions are my own.

The Yorkshire puddings really aren’t a pudding as many people understand it. They are actually sort of like popovers, and the giant ones I use here are made exactly the same way I would make Dutch Baby pancakes, with the exception of using beef drippings topped up with butter instead of all butter in that recipe (and of course, no powdered sugar sprinkled on top! Yikes!)

And the only other thing was that rolling out the Yorkshire puddings, as I discovered, doesn’t work nearly as well as just leaving it as is, tucking in the sides and rolling up. Trying to flatten them just causes them to split around the edges, and that’s not the best thing.

Bill and I both loved these! I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. They certainly are a bit different!

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